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local officials have been through this before. they're well-trained. they have good plans how to respond to this. we've been communicating and people are taking steps to be prepared. so we feel fairly confident in virginia folks are taking the steps to be ready for whatever the storm might bring. jon: i know you have got the national guard out and ready did. you've got power crews coming in from other states to help restore power as well, don't you?. >> yeah. we know many of our power companies in virginia are prepositioning out-of-state resources coming in. national guard we deployed them in key areas around the commonwealth to be ready to deploy and help out local officials that might need assistance. we have our state police and out there. department of transportation. they have their crews across the commonwealth. they're already to go to help out as needed. jon: from virginia's department of emergency management. bob, thanks for the information. >> thank you, jon. jenna: well as bob just told us really we're seeing and feeling sandy from way down in virginia all the way up the east

grounds, he gets some coverage here in the local media market, it also gives him an opportunity, you heard david pluff talking about libya on a sunday show, he was down-playing the president's expectation saying he's not such a great debater, he hasn't done this in four years since debating john mccain where as mitt romney had all this practice. even last night the president was trying to downplay his expectations. >> who is going to put the most points on the board? [you are ] >> no, no, governor romney, he's a good debater. i'm just okay. but what i'm most concerned about is having a serious discussion about what we need to do to keep the country growing and restore security for hard-working americans. >> i'm just okay the president says in terms of debating, although i remember back in tpwaeut 2008 he did a pretty good job against hillary clinton. a pretty good job with john mccain. by the way, no sign of lindsay lohan here yet. jenna: where are the celebrities going to come in next. ed you're better than okay. back toed as news warrants in las vegas. i gregg: if she was there you would

unfolded at 9:340 in the evening local time. we are learning for the first time that the ambassador moved to a safe room in the main building of the consulate. separately fox news is told that ambassador stevens followed the dictated evacuation and emergency plan that came from washington. after the fall of the libyan dictator gadhafi fox news is told that the state department did an assessment con khraougd the consulate could withstand an assault of only 15 minutes and much less if the number of assailants was greater than four. chairman issa saying this morning there is the political question and then there is a practical matter of security. >> the reason i called my committee back during this period of time in which most members are home campaigning, was that i thought it was so important that we get to the truth about the failure of security, because we have hundreds of missions an embassies and cons let's around the world, and if this has been repeated even once, and i don't act quickly then i failed to meet my obligation. >> reporter: two final points, this i shall you've the demons

to be paying very, very close attention to your local forecast. still a category 2. we just got of 11:00 advisory. it was a major hurricane overnight t rapidly intensified within hours. look at latest track. category 2 moving through the bahamas. it hugs the coast friday into saturday. look what happens as we head into early next week, the worst-case scenario right now, moving right into millions upon millions of people. and this could cause extensive catastrophic damage. i'm not just standing here making this stuff up. i want people to really pay attention to this because, again, this could be worst-case scenario. at any rate we're dealing with high seas, rip currents, beach erosion, coastal flooding certainly storm surge as the storm moves onshore. at the exact point or location where it will move onshore still not known yet and exact strength still not known yet. we will see torrential rain, flooding inland. high winds, 60, to 80 miles an hour. significant power outages that could last for weeks and millions of people. downed trees, jon. we still have foal yauge on the trees. winds

feet. that's what authorities don't want to see right now or really ever until local authorities can come in and clear the area and tell people district by district that it's okay to come back. jenna: peter, good thing that you're prepared. it looks like you have the boots on that hopefully will protect you at least walking around to look at some of the damage. you're showing us that parking lot there. what about the roads around the area where you are? can people get out? >> we saw earlier, jenna, this morning not a lot of cars on the road, but right now the roads are mostly clear. there are still a few that are blocked off by the police, all morning long on the main drags where there was some junk that had flowed in from the bay or from the ocean, just random shells and rocks and some other sea trash, they were moving it off to the side of the road with snow plows, so the roads are mostly clear but there are a few where the police are saying, you cannot go past, and that is actually one that is not too far from here. we don't really know how bad some of the roads are. that's anothe

. this is most likely a bone-headed mistake by a local commander who was frustrated by the rebels crossing the border and seeking safety on the turkish side of the border. i'm certain there will not be a repeat of this incident. the senior leadership in syria wants no part of any escalation of an event like this with a clash with turkey. turkey has a very powerful military and they certainly don't want to widen the problem they have inside their country to a conflict with turkey. jon: bashar al-assad's forces have enough of a problem just containing, just battling their own population, the rebel fighters within syria. if they have to take on a force from outside, namely turkey, are they going to be able to handle that? >> no, they could not. quite frankly, i don't think they can handle the rebels if we gave them the weapons that they desire and some of the information that they desperately need, not even to speak of a no-fly zone, if we just armed them properly i think the syrian military would have significant problems with the rebels as we've already seen. jon: but then you wind up with

is for us who could be against us. they have become a local tradition at the public school there until an atheist group complained that it violated the first amendment explanation of church and state. that's when they were banned and the cheerleaders sued and the state officials got involved. the texas state attorney general and the governor rick perry sided with the cheerleaders saying it's their first amendment right to continue using the banners. >> we will not allow atheist groups from outside of the state of texas to come into this state, to use menacing and misleading intimidation tactics to try to bully schools to bow down at the alter of secular beliefs. >> reporter: governor perry was asked about cheer readers of other nonchristian religions, would he still be supportive of them? >> i don't know whether you'd be here, i would be. and the point is that ace said in my remarks, this is about all religion. this is the freedom -- that's what this country was based upon. >> reporter: there is an education code in texas, jenna, that states clearly that schools must respect the rights

that there was no demonstration at the consulate when thettack unfolded at 9:340 in the evening local time. are leag r th f buheonlate.m pate few is told that ambassador stevens followed the dictated evacuation and emergency pl that came from washington. after the fall of the libyan dictator gadhafi fox news is disssmt k state departm asul of out and much less if the number of assailants was greater than four. chairman issa saying this morning there is the political question and then there is a practical matter of security. coacurnhisso ialle ri o t ihiost er aom campaigning, was that i thought it was so important that we get to the truth about the failure of security, because we have hundreds of missions an embassies and cons let around ac qckhe i fd to meet my obligation. >> reporter: two final points, this i shall you'vehe demonstration is important, number one, as we first reported on september 17t there was no demonstration, in ft the was onrai eerhe yt ath d w ande that thread was pulled the entire narrative that someho this was a demonstration that spun out of control, this was undercut, those stat

disappeared about a year ago. local police pieced together the mystery and arrested the woman that september, a few months later. ten days after the arrest lee's remains were found on a path in a local canyon outside of san francisco. in opening statements defense attorneys telling the jury that a smoldering july just see called esteban to lose it. text messages will play a bill role in 24 tria this trial as prosecutors will show threatening tex from esteban, both to her child and to lee, telling her husband that michelle lee had dug her own grave by having an affair with him. gregg: the old heat of passion sudden impulse defense, sometimes it works. we'll wait and see. jenna: fox news alert. early voting begins today in the key battleground state of ohio. there is also some breaking news on a tough new voter i.d. requirement in pennsylvania. a judge is now blocking that new requirement, ordering it not be enforced in the presidential election. democrats have mounted a furious opposition to this law that requires each voter to show a valid photo i.d. before filling out a ballot. republicans

and local officials around the country on stage with him and ready to fan out over the weekend to hit 11 key battleground states. finally, jenna, romney's last event of the campaign takes place monday night in new hampshire, the place where he has a vacation home, nashua the gait city, the "nashua telegraph" which endorsed barack obama in 2008, switched its allegiances and endorsed mitt romney as the guy best suited to deal with the economy. jenna. jenna: keep an eye what is happening in florida and rest of breaking news in politics and otherwise. carl, thank you. jon: the weather has affected election and campaigning plans and hundreds of miles from the eye of the storm, sandy's violent outer bands prompted weather warnings. they kicked up massive waves. this is the no the ocean. these are the great lakes. how much damage did the storm do there? we'll speak to the commander of michigan's emergency management office coming up. >>> startling new numbers out of europe. what the unemployment rate says about the recovery there, and the chances europe could be headed toward another recession. [sh

important to make is in the final analysis we are always dependent on the local security forces, the local government, to protect us, even in very dangerous posts where you might have an american bodyguard, you're not going to be able to be safe in the final analysis unless the host government is able to protect you. jenna: just and on that point then, what do you make of the repeated requests that we heard in the hearing last week on capitol hill, the repeated requests by the regional security from the state department, security official, asking for more security and he says not getting it? what do you make of that exchange and what should we know about that? >> i don't find that terribly surprising. after all, resources are finite. "new york times" this morning reported that congressman issa himself voted to cut the number of diplomatic security personnel in the past. you have to make choices with what you have and, in diplomatic security, i think there are always more threats and requests than you can handle. sometimes you make a good decision. sometimes it turns out to be a bad decisio

. jenna: chris will anchor "fox news sunday". check your local listing for the time. you don't want to miss that this close to the election especially. jon: we heard chris correcting some of what the president said and we heard some of what governor romney and the president sparred over last night. how much was actually accurate? doug mckelway live in washington with a fact check for us. >> reporter: good morning, jon. there was a lot of loose play with the facts. let's start with questioner candy crowley permitted. >> in what ways you do intend to correct in the workplace, females making 72% what they earned. >> reporter: that 72% figure is a myth endured for years. the census bureau admitted as much last month. >> we don't have a way to measure equal pay for equal work. we compare full-time earnings for year-round work between men and women. >> reporter: in fact census data are a rough measure of women's wages versus all men wages without kind of jobs they choose to accommodate needs for families. a fact challenge that came up regarding taxes. >> he was on "60 minutes" just two we

of this from office. he allegedly told a codefendant, a local city councilman, quote, we need to use the black limo and buy a couple of cases of cheap vodka and whiskey to get people to vote. >> guess i always knew all the along it was wrong but at first i really didn't think it was that big of a deal, you know, because i always heards that's what everybody did. >> reporter: the scheme involved opening absentee ballots. checking if the votes were for hallum if they were cast for his opponent kim felker, they were destroyed. arkansas officials they are finding fraud. others like republican state representative brian king are calling for stricter laws to stop voter fraud. >> when you steal an election, you get cheated. somebody worked hard to gain the will and trust of the people. when you steal an election you compromise that. that shouldn't be compromised in democracy. >> mr. hallum faces a possible five years in prison of the his name is on the ballot for next month's election but officials say if he wins he will not serve. if you suspect problems where you live, there is our address, voterfr

was shot while taking out of his trash. most of the shootings are directed at cars driving on the local interstate, i-96. >> hit the wind shield, head-on collision my kids, anybody ales's families are dead and he is driving out around with a gun. >> we have a good community. that is the best thing we love and have someone come in here and disrupt is very disturbing to us. >> reporter: police are asking anybody to be loon the okay lookout. call if you see anything. the number to report you've seen something, 1-800-speak up. a task force and local officials from the atf meeting to fine tune their game plan. they say they are confident they will find this person. back to you. jenna: how scary. rick, thank you. jon: there has been an awful lot of criticism over the obama administration's handling of the situation in libya, from the apparent lapses in security before the terror attack on the u.s. consulate in gaziano -- benghazi to the changing narrative after the attack that left three americans dead. here is how mitt romney addressed it last night. >> we've seen in nation after nation a nu

my home mortgage deduction, my charitable deduction, my deduction for state and local taxes and any tax deduction i will have i will still get a tax cut. >> reporter: the question here tonight at hofstra university, will president obama be able to make that case? there is every expectations after intense week of debate preparation a very different president obama will be here in hempstead, long island as opposed to one that showed up in denver two weeks ago. jon: that will be fascinating to watch. what about governor romney, what does he need to accomplish tonight? >> governor romney's challenge is to connect with voters here in this room. that was a big knock on him during the primary campaign. he has gotten much better. the town hall format which was not his strongest suit, has become one of his strongest suits. governor is looking forward to making the case on one-on-one basis. watch him move to the middle as well where all the swing voters he needs live. he will aggressively try to differentiate his plans for the future with president obama and give voters a clear choice what th

expect to get some flooding. i know local officials will look at that and see certain areas, neighborhoods near streams might have to evacuate. jenna: great tips and great information, bob. we look forward to talking to you more as we continue to watch sandy and her move towards the east coast. bob, thank you very much. >> thanks, jenna. jon: some brand new numbers on the growth of u.s. economy as we get a stunning new report on the potential impact of the looming fiscal cliff. signs businesses are already struggling as washington drags its feet on that. >>> plus a severely injured baseball fan back in the ballpark. an update on brian stow who went to a ballgame and ended up in a coma. his case against the accused coming up follow the wings. jon: fox news alert. some of the latest stats on u.s. economic growth. the commerce department saying the economy grew at a 2% rate from july through september. that's up from 1.3% in the previous quarter. rich edson of the fox business network joins us now. so what's behind this increase, rich? >> reporter: jon, government spending help

that the local boards could account for where the ballots were, make sure the voting rules were synchronized so when the poll books went out to the polls on tuesday for election day that nobody could vote twice. we knew who already voted and the rolls were, had integrity. >> reporter: democrats filed suit saying the restrictions make voting more difficult for a considerable segment of the population, for instance churches that intended on busing voters to the early voting locations. the court agreed, saying in essence the polling locations should be able to handle the workload and there is no argument that justified the restrictions. >> by collapsing the early vote schedule an eliminating weekends and weekend hours for voting you are disenfranchising a an entire group of individuals. those individuals who work during the day. those individuals who have kids that they have to pick up and take to school. those individuals who don't have access to transportation. >> reporter: if the secretary of state appeals we could have a legal battle stretching into the final days before the elections. thus fa

local syrians want a better life for themselves and their country and the jihadists who clearly want an islamic state inside syria. jon, back to you. jon: leland vittert, thank you. jenna: flying dragon now on its way to international space station. remaining on course despite a problem with an engine. the game of changing mission and what happened specifically with that engine. what went wrong there? >>> plus, a mission in the other direction. right now a daredevil sky diver is getting ready the to jump from a balloon 23 miles above the earth. why, you ask? we'll tell you next. [ male announcer ] at scottrade, you won't just find us online, you'll also find us in person, with dedicated support teams at over 500 branches nationwide. so when you call or visit, you can ask for a name you know. because personal service starts with a real person. [ rodger ] at scottrade, seven dollar trades are just the start. our support teams are nearby, ready to help. it's no wonder so many investors are saying... [ all ] i'm with scottrade. jenna: well, right now an update on a record-breaking skydiv

that requires state and local election boards to keep their polls up-to-date. critics call it voter purging, saying it makes it harder for some people to vote. supporters say this is important because it prevents voter fraud. eric shawn live in the new york city newsroom with more on all this. >> reporter: hi, jenna. millions may get a big surprise when they show up to vote on november 6th. they will be told they're, inactive. by law you can be considered an inactive voter not voting in two consecutive federal elections or not returning postcards back to the election board to verify your address. the numbers are straggering. take a look. nearly 21 million inactive voters. california has the vote. texas nearly two million. florida, new york, illinois also top a million. even though they can still vote after confirming information or reregistering again, critics charge officials are intentionally purging voters with these lists. not so say election officials. louisiana secretary of state tom shedler says the accurate voter list assures elections by having accurate voting list. >> i put voting

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